What would you do if you needed to change your PerformancePoint 2007 Monitoring Server Configuration database instance name? Let’s take a step back and start with some background. Microsoft BI product installations have a separate data tier option. In other words, the database is on a different machine than the actual product (like PerformancePoint). Occasionally, you may have a need to change your database server or move your data to a new database instance on the same machine. Perhaps you have a leased server and the lease expired. Maybe you have outgrown your current hardware and need a larger SQL Server machine. In all of these cases, you are going to have to backup and restore the database, ensure that you have the correct logins and permissions, and change any application configurations to use the new database instance. Let’s look into these items and see how to make the changes for PerformancePoint.